Browns: Josh Cribbs says he'll get thicker skin over Twitter comments

Josh Cribbs is not going to stop reading tweets. He's just going to bite his fingertips before he responds again.

Cribbs lost his cool in Denver when fans sent him harsh and profane tweets after he muffed a punt that led to a Broncos touchdown. He responded with a profane tweet of his own, which he later took down.

"I'll just get thicker skin," Cribbs said Wednesday. "That has made me get thicker skin. Anybody in here, you press their buttons in the right way at the right time. I had a sour taste in my mouth from putting that out there.

"A lot of people don't know anything about football and keep calling this just a game. But this is our life, this is my life. It's more than a game to me."

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Cribbs has received negative tweets before and did his best to ignore them. He blew up this time in the same week fans voted him first on special teams in Pro Bowl voting. Cribbs is an alternate on the team announced Wednesday night.

"It's just a few people that get through, more than a few people that get through that have negative comments or just say negative things to get me to respond to them," Cribbs said. "I've gotten a lot of those. Somebody'll say something bad, then I'll respond to them and they say something to their friends like, 'Look, he responded.' So it's really kids and people with no football sense.

"I was a little bit more passionate because I was frustrated myself. The coach (Pat Shurmur) didn't really yell at me because he knew I was upset. I've been in this game long enough to know my mistakes and what I did."

Shurmur met with Cribbs and told him the Cribbs' tweet was unacceptable.

"I deleted it because it was the right thing to do," Cribbs continued. "I wasn't supposed to say it. It's just how I felt. Obviously after the game I was mad at myself, mad at the fact we lost the game and how we lost and how I played. I felt like I was playing a solid game up until that point. I was trying to make plays."

Cribbs is in the final year of his contract. Despite the twitter fiasco, he wants to re-sign and finish career with the Browns.